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Meeting with the US Ambassador
13-02-2024…F. Brzezinski, US Ambassador to Poland. Mark F. Brzezinski was born in the USA in 1965 and grew up in Washington DC. He is a lawyer by profession. He served at the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton from 1999 to 2001. He was a foreign policy advisor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. From 2011 to 2015, he served as a US ambassador to Sweden. He first came to Warsaw on a Fulbright scholarship in 1991 to conduct research…
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Report on solidarity
01-02-2024…Publication details Digidiki, V., Bhabha, J. Markowska-Manista, U. & Dobkowska, J. (2024). Building Inclusion, Sustaining Solidarity towards migrants in frontline local communities: The case of Poland during the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis. Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Boston, USA….
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Prof. Piotr Węgleński, Rector of the University of Warsaw for the term 1999-2005 passed away
19-01-2024…Warsaw University of Technology) the development of a computer using the reactions of DNA molecules. In the 1970s, he undertook numerous research internships in the UK (John Innes Institute), the USA (Massachussets Institute of Technology, MIT) and France (Paris XI). His stays abroad gave him the opportunity to learn about nascent genetic engineering. As an academic teacher, he was famous for the visionary introduction of its methods in Poland….
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UW scientist awarded the Fulbright STEM Impact Award
15-12-2023…ons. Grant holders can spend several weeks at a host institution in the USA, doing research and/or teaching projects, as well as learning about the commercialisation of science and development of successful grant applications. Prof. Piotr Szymczak from the UW Faculty of Physics is among the laureates of the STEM Impact Award 2023-2024. Statistical physics is his field of expertise. Thanks to the grant, he will carry out research on the process o…
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Planetary health survey
15-12-2023…l communities The MOSAIC project involves working with local communities in low- and middle-income countries living in transboundary zones. “They struggle with the negative effects of environmental degradation that affect their health and wellbeing. They are also in particular socio-political contexts that increase their level of vulnerability,” Dr Aneta Afelt explains. The researchers assume that local communities are best equipped to interpret…
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Archaeological discoveries in Georgia
12-12-2023…he discovery of a wine pressing plant, was also described on the UW’s website: https://www.uw.edu.pl/odkrycia-w-gruzinskim-gonio/….
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Logical structure of graphs
07-12-2023…r his doctoral dissertation he received the Ackermann Award granted by the European Association for Computer Science Logic. The award is given for outstanding dissertations, which focus on logic in computer science. The researcher completed postdoctoral fellowships at The École Normale Supérieure (ENS Cachan) and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. Prof. Toruńczyk’s publications have been presented at prestigious conferences on theo…
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Tasmanian devil with unprecedented flares
20-11-2023…actly at work – perhaps a newly formed compact object (black hole or neutron star) funnelling jets of stellar material outward at close to the speed of light – continues to be studied. In the case of LFBOTs, rapid rotation or a strong magnetic field are probably key components of their launching mechanisms. It is also possible that they are not conventional supernovas at all, instead triggered by a star’s merger with a black hole. Details of the p…
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Building bridges at the European University
16-11-2023…lliance was awarded European University status in the European Commission’s pilot competition “European Universities” funded by the Erasmus+ programme. In the next edition, One Comprehensive Research European University (1CORE), the Alliance’s 4EU+ project, received funding (27th July 2022). It includes, among other things, the preparation of a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary educational offer, innovative research-based education, intensif…
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Read with the UW – third edition
16-10-2023…ious one: where does the title Other Songs come from? One answer is that the book is divided into twenty-four books, each named after one of the letters of the Greek alphabet, exactly as in the editions of Homer’s Iliad or Odyssey,” Prof. Przemysław Kordos explains. Another riddle is the finale itself, and the answer to it is given by each reader independently. Word games “As befits a proper fantasy novel, the plot is only part of the whole pu…
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